Rural Caribbean.(Brief Article)

For years, bankers in rural areas have had programs to help new farmers. These are not always 100% successful, but they are a support mechanism that almost all agriculture-based community banks encourage and participate in. For nonfarm communities, there is FBLA---Future Business Leaders of America. I learned of this (new ......

An important swing vote on the DR-CAFTA vote from last week, Representative Mark Foley (R-Fla.), one of the major supporters of current sugar policy in Congress, acknowledged he was not sure how he would vote. DR-CAFTA passed last week by a razor thin 217-215. In an interview with The Palm ......

HEADNOTE Manage crop protectants properly in melon production to protect water quality. IMAGE PHOTOGRAPH 1 CONCERN about the harmful effects of crop protectants on surface-water and groundwater quality should motivate watermelon growers to select crop protectants with the least potential to cause water quality problems. Many watermelon growers live in ......

Washington, D.C.— More than half — 52 percent — of traffic fatalities in the United States between 1999 and 2003 have occurred on rural, non-interstate roads and highways, even though vehicle travel on these roads only accounted for 28 percent of travel during that period, according to a new report ......

More than half — 52 percent — of traffic fatalities in the United States between 1999 and 2003 have occurred on rural, non-interstate roads and highways, even though vehicle travel on these roads only accounted for 28 percent of travel during that period, according to a new report released March ......

Way back in 1990 (was it really last century?), I travelled through China on buses, trains and a black, iron Russian-made bicycle. It was a different scene to the present day China. Under strict, uncompromising communist rule, there were no starving, homeless or unemployed people and crime was relatively unknown ......

In Washington these days, everyone is suddenly a friend of small business, even if an issue actually has little to do with small firms, or worse, adversely affects them.

"Many firms in the US have the ability to participate in the international marketplace. Unfortunately, many companies ignore opportunities outside the US... [thus] missing out on a tremendous opportunity... Why do firms export? The many reasons can be boiled down to only a few, easily remembered phrases: To increase profits ......